It might take some time to see ATM upgrades in the U.S. financial
system because of the strict regulations governing North
American banks, according to Bayometric, which is a leading
global provider of biometric security
systems.
Enacted in 2010 by a Democrat - controlled Congress and signed into law by Barack Obama, FATCA is virtually unknown to most
Americans but has been wreaking havoc with the
global financial
system outside the US Touted as a weapon against «fat cat» tax evaders stashing funds offshore, FATCA is instead an indiscriminate information dragnet requiring all non-US financial institutions (
banks, credit unions, insurance companies, investment and pension funds, etc.) in every country in the world to report data on all specified US accounts to the IRS.